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Re: Last Famous Person You Saw On The Streets Of Glasgow was

Decent prospects of spotting Brad Pitt over the next couple of weeks, I'd have thought.

Glasgow is transformed for Brad Pitt film World War Z:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/14540104
by Toaster
Tue Aug 16, 2011 10:46 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Last Famous Person You Saw On The Streets Of Glasgow was...
Replies: 731
Views: 559148

Re: Why doesn't Pollok have a "C"?

One of these mysterys, like place name pronounciation. Why for instance, is: Milingavie = Mulguy Kilincadzow = Kilgeggie Ravenstruther = Renstry Strathhaven = Straven Strathhaven's easy. It's just a contraction, like Ne'erday or Halloween. Milingavie is Milguy rather than Mulguy, probably - they so...
by Toaster
Mon Jul 25, 2011 8:58 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Why doesn't Pollok have a "C"?
Replies: 16
Views: 8692

Re: M74 Extension goes ahead

quetion is are you going to be able to access the M73 from the neew M74 and go north towards ballieston and pick up the M8 and vice versa, if yes then it will avoid a hell of a lot of traffic from townhead towards the kingston bridge That's always been possible and isn't going to change once the M7...
by Toaster
Mon Jun 13, 2011 11:19 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Development
Topic: M74 Extension goes ahead
Replies: 289
Views: 196672

Re: Glasgow's Gasworks

Anyone interested in Glasgow's Gasworks should read about one of the city's rare terrorist incidents, which took out one of the (then three) Tradeston gasometers back in 1883. Given that there's a specific date, a good one for digging around in the Mitchell archives, perhaps. http://www.theglasgowst...
by Toaster
Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:19 am
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Glasgow's Gasworks
Replies: 39
Views: 35502

Re: McKinley Street - Gorbals?

McKinley Street runs between Turriff Street and Devon Street. The entire area around McKinley Street has been demolished. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=devon+Street,+glasgow&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Devon+St,+Glasgow,+Lanarkshire+G5+9ST,+United+Kingdom&ll=55.845557,-4.260136&am...
by Toaster
Wed Oct 27, 2010 1:11 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: McKinley Street - Gorbals?
Replies: 7
Views: 4386

Re: Gray Den

Don't commercial map makers deliberately misname some roads in order to make copyright violations easier to identify? That was my suspicion - tried getting directions it on Multimap and it turns up there too. However, when you try to find Gray Den on its own on Multimap, it doesn't appear. Google M...
by Toaster
Fri Jul 09, 2010 2:13 pm
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Gray Den
Replies: 12
Views: 3420

Gray Den

Anyone know why a bit of Cook Street in Tradeston is called Gray Den? I appears every time I ask Google for directions leading me onto the Kingston Bridge. Had a search on the internet and can't find any references. http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=gray+den+glasgow&um=1&ie=UTF-8&...
by Toaster
Fri Jul 09, 2010 8:14 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Gray Den
Replies: 12
Views: 3420

Re: port eglinton

The shop would be Badger's Not an explosion, but around 1970 Pollokshaws Road on the east side of Eglinton Toll collapsed into the railway tunnels. The repair work went on for almost 2 years as I recall, although I was very young :) Spoke to my mum tonight - she can remember the garage collapsing i...
by Toaster
Wed Apr 28, 2010 8:45 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: port eglinton
Replies: 38
Views: 101968

Re: port eglinton

Appreciated your insights, Toaster. Great stuff Guacho! Guacho's memories make perfect sense when you look at the aerial photograph with Eglinton Toll in the middle. There is a huge undeveloped gap over where the various railway lines split. http://www.scotcities.com/railways/eglintontoll.jpg What ...
by Toaster
Wed Apr 28, 2010 9:08 am
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: port eglinton
Replies: 38
Views: 101968

Re: port eglinton

Anyone wondering about the building works on Turriff Street - it's another housing development.

http://www.johngilbert.co.uk/index.php?q=node/314

I'm dying to see how they'll sell the panoramic views of the Eglinton Viaduct in the brochure...
by Toaster
Tue Apr 27, 2010 2:46 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: port eglinton
Replies: 38
Views: 101968

Re: port eglinton

The present works are a serious engineering undertaking. My parents owned a business in shops in Eglinton St facing the Eglinton St railway station. I walked from school daily from 1949 then after a short interval at the end of my school years worked in this business location until the mid 70's. Eg...
by Toaster
Mon Apr 26, 2010 11:58 am
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: port eglinton
Replies: 38
Views: 101968

Re: White lights in the sky over Glasgow tonight 15th Sept 2009

The support beams for the M74 over the Paisley Railway lines were lowered into place last night. The area was lit up like a Christmas Tree when I passed it at around 10:30pm. It was probably something to do with that. Toaster, were these lights at the M74 works moving after each other or were they ...
by Toaster
Wed Sep 16, 2009 9:52 pm
 
Forum: Random Distractions
Topic: White lights in the sky over Glasgow tonight 15th Sept 2009
Replies: 96
Views: 37255

Re: White lights in the sky over Glasgow tonight 15th Sept 2009

The support beams for the M74 over the Paisley Railway lines were lowered into place last night. The area was lit up like a Christmas Tree when I passed it at around 10:30pm.

It was probably something to do with that.
by Toaster
Wed Sep 16, 2009 8:45 am
 
Forum: Random Distractions
Topic: White lights in the sky over Glasgow tonight 15th Sept 2009
Replies: 96
Views: 37255

Re: Glasgow streetnames with a military connection

Hotspur Street ,Mount Stuart Street ,Battlefield Place Where's Battlefield Place? Presumably you mean Battle Place - the roundabout where the monument stands. There's also Battlefield Road, Gardens, and Avenue. A lot of the street names surrounding Queens Park have a connection of some sort to the ...
by Toaster
Mon Aug 24, 2009 4:13 pm
 
Forum: Hidden Glasgow Projects
Topic: Glasgow streetnames with a military connection
Replies: 17
Views: 31472

Re: Maxwell Road Building

Hi, I am trying to find any info on the NTL Telewest/Virgin Media building in Pollocksheilds Maxwell Road if it was a hospital ward previously as its exterior and interior design is shaped like it. Thx. Never a hospital building to my knowledge. Wasn't it was a British Gas office? My gran lived nea...
by Toaster
Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:01 am
 
Forum: Glasgow Chat (Coffee Lounge)
Topic: Maxwell Road Building
Replies: 5
Views: 4132
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